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one case at least, the flagstones in the lower rooms were broken and 
thrown up. At Furness Abbey, the bells of the hotel rang with 
violence. At Hawcoat, a buzzing noise was heard. The shock, on 
reaching the shore of Morecambe Bay, would appear to have 
branched off in two directions,—the one towards Barrow, and the 
other towards Furness Abbey and Dalton. In Salthouse Marsh it 
was very severe. Some gentlemen who were standing on the para- 
pet in front of the Barrow Railway-station were nearly thrown 
down by the rocking of the flagstones beneath their feet. All along 
the Strand the bells rang in the houses, and the reporter of the 
newspaper was thrown from his desk against the wall. At Barrow 
there seemed to be two distinct waves, accompanied by a loud rum- 
bling sound, which lasted about half a minute. All the vessels in 
the harbour were made to roll and pitch through the severity of the 
shock. [The writer of the account in the ‘ Barrow Herald’ states 
that an earthquake occurred at Ambleside in 1780, by which two 
clefts were produced. One of them was very deep, and 200 feet in 
length; it nearly swallowed up six houses and several cattle. I 
have carefully examined, in company with local geologists, a number 
of large fissures on each side of the valley between Whitehaven and 
St. Bees, which would seem to admit of no other explanation than 
an earthquake of comparatively recent occurrence. ‘The tourist on 
the railway can easily distinguish them by the stripes of wood under 
which they lie concealed. |—D. M. 
RECENT Accounts from Mexico report the discovery of valuable 
treasures in that country. Baron de Morner, a Swede, has found a 
deposit of anthracite of excellent quality-in the Guerrero district. 
Concessions have been granted of a layer of bitumen and two coal- 
scams in the Arrondissement of Iturbide; of a petroleum-well near 
Tenancingo; and of a vein of cinnabar at Sultepec. Two Frenchmen, 
MM. Favre and Garibel, are about to establish iron-mines in the 
district of Chaleo, where the railway-works are being carried on 
with great activity.—‘ Reader.’ 
ConGrREss OF DELEGATES OF THE FRENCH LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
—M. A. de Caumont, the Director of ‘The Institute of the Pro- 
vinces,’ has issued circulars to the Presidents of the several Learned 
Societies of France, praying the appointment of six delegates from 
each to meet in convocation at Paris on the 20th of April. The 
questions which will be submitted for discussion this year, as usual, 
will bear on Agriculture, Geology, Statistics, Archeology, and 
Art.—R. T. 
Tue PaAL#onTOGRAPHICAL Society. — Dr. P. Martin Duncan, 
See. Geol. Soe. (8, Belmont, Lee, S.E.), being engaged in preparing 
an Appendix to MM. Edwards and Haimes’ British Fossil Cora's ; 
and Mr. Henry Woodward (144, Leighton Road, N.W.) having also 
undertaken to prepare a Monograph of Paleozoic Crustacea, of the 
order Eurypterida, for this Society; they beg to request the kind 
assistance of Geologists and Palzontologists, and private Collectors 
generally throughout the country, in forwarding their labours, either 
by the communication of information as to localities, or by the offer 
of the loan of specimens for examination, &c. , 
